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Trojans upset Bruins, 86-82
Sports, page 16
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USC bands make good
Life / Arts, page 7
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Volume CXVII, Number 11
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 30, 1992
Leader of the Pac University tram drivers
negotiating job security
Officials are considering contract with Teamsters
By Brian McDonough
Assistant City Editor
University officials are nearing a contract agreement with the Teamsters guaranteeing the jobs of the university's 14 tram drivers who turned to the union in the fall because they feared being permanently laid off.
"We're only negotiating job security," said Teamster representative Jim Benton after a Tuesday morning meeting with Donald Mask, acting associate vice president for auxiliary services and James Ball, university counsel.
Mask would not confirm whether assurances of the drivers' being rehired were central to the negotiations, but said job security is always an issue in contract negotiations.
"We haven't come to closure on all the terms
yet, but we are close," Mask said. "In early February we'll probably have our final meeting."
Though a concrete pay raise scale is also on the table, Benton said there are no complaints about pay or benefits.
In the past, most tram drivers laid off in the summer months because of severely reduced tram routes have been given work in other departments, such as the physical plant, until the fail semester. Last year, the university attempted to lay off drivers without offering any other work.
Dennis Archambault, former director of tram and escort services, said Tuesday that he was instructed last summer to lay off the tram drivers
(See Contract, page 10)
‘No one left defending us’
Parking staff upset by director layoffs
Edward Siegel / Daily Trojan
Yamen Sanders (left) and Dwayne Hackett exchange high fives after triumphing over UCLA, 86-82. Please see story, page 16.
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
A university official laid off Jan. 20 said in a Sept. 3 memo that he was excluded from tram driver negotiations because of rumors that he encouraged the drivers to unionize.
Tram drivers confirmed Tuesday that Dennis Archambault, director of tram and escort services, was absent from meet-
ings, adding that this had concerned some drivers.
Several drivers said Archambault and Roy Heidicker, associate director of parking who was absent as well before being laid off last week, were the only administrators the drivers felt cared for their interests as well as that of the university's.
Thomas Moran, vice president of business affairs, said
that the layoffs of Archambault, Heidicker and another parking employee, Diana Cretien, were part of budgetary restructuring. He said suggestions that the layoffs were in any way related to the tram drivers or the Teamsters were "absolutely false; absolutely nonsense."
Drivers praised Archambault and Heidicker, and said their dismissals add to the drivers' insecurities.
(See Layoffs, page 6)
State of Union address divides campus opinion
By Allyson Daniel
Staff Writer
President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday drew mixed reviews from University faculty and students.
The 54-minute speech proposed several immediate tax and military cuts to remedy the. current economic problems.
Urging Congress to approve his plan by March 20, the President said, "We are going to lift this nation out of hard times inch by inch and day by day, and those who would stop us had better step aside. Because I look at hard times and I make this vow: This will not stand."
Herbert Alexander, a political science professor, didn't think the speech was going to "jump start" the economy because the proposals were too short-term.
"He did not convey the sense of urgency about the economy that I thought was necessary," Alexander said. "He never really said that we're in bad straits and that we need to work together as Americans and not as Republicans and Democrats."
Tiara Hallman, a senior majoring in business entrepreneurship, said she was impressed with the President's address.
(See Address, page 2)
Report evaluates LA economy
Downtown revival lacks effectiveness
By Lore Unt
Staff Writer
As national concerns about the recession dominate the 1992 presidential campaign, university re-seachers have completed a controversial study examining the role of local government in stimulating the Los Angeles economy.
The report, released Tuesday by researchers from the School of Urban and Regional Planning, claims that local government intervention — particularly in promoting downtown development
— has had little effect in promoting economic growth in the region.
The downtown revival is touted by Mayor Tom Bradley and local agencies and businesses as a key to revitalizing Los Angeles.
However, according to the report, the revival is "not the key to the region's success ... the most dramatic economic growth has
Edward Siegel/ Dally Trojan
Development of the downtown area has not achieved expected results.
occurred in the region's peripheral counties."
The report said growth in regional employment has increased at a greater relative rate in the Riverside-San Bernadino areas and in Orange County.
In light of these criticisms, the report evaluates the state of the Los Angeles economy. It also em-
phasizes that strategies to encourage growth should involve minimal government regulations.
Though the economy of the central city remains strong, it is more vulnerable than at any other time in the recent past, according to the report.
(See Study, page 5)

. fa s
XJl*
Trojans upset Bruins, 86-82
Sports, page 16
WEATHER
TODAY:
Mostly clear, TOMORROW:
50/70
Mostly clear,
.......
istiy
45/
/69
USC bands make good
Life / Arts, page 7
on
]L_J
I
trojan
Volume CXVII, Number 11
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 30, 1992
Leader of the Pac University tram drivers
negotiating job security
Officials are considering contract with Teamsters
By Brian McDonough
Assistant City Editor
University officials are nearing a contract agreement with the Teamsters guaranteeing the jobs of the university's 14 tram drivers who turned to the union in the fall because they feared being permanently laid off.
"We're only negotiating job security," said Teamster representative Jim Benton after a Tuesday morning meeting with Donald Mask, acting associate vice president for auxiliary services and James Ball, university counsel.
Mask would not confirm whether assurances of the drivers' being rehired were central to the negotiations, but said job security is always an issue in contract negotiations.
"We haven't come to closure on all the terms
yet, but we are close," Mask said. "In early February we'll probably have our final meeting."
Though a concrete pay raise scale is also on the table, Benton said there are no complaints about pay or benefits.
In the past, most tram drivers laid off in the summer months because of severely reduced tram routes have been given work in other departments, such as the physical plant, until the fail semester. Last year, the university attempted to lay off drivers without offering any other work.
Dennis Archambault, former director of tram and escort services, said Tuesday that he was instructed last summer to lay off the tram drivers
(See Contract, page 10)
‘No one left defending us’
Parking staff upset by director layoffs
Edward Siegel / Daily Trojan
Yamen Sanders (left) and Dwayne Hackett exchange high fives after triumphing over UCLA, 86-82. Please see story, page 16.
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
A university official laid off Jan. 20 said in a Sept. 3 memo that he was excluded from tram driver negotiations because of rumors that he encouraged the drivers to unionize.
Tram drivers confirmed Tuesday that Dennis Archambault, director of tram and escort services, was absent from meet-
ings, adding that this had concerned some drivers.
Several drivers said Archambault and Roy Heidicker, associate director of parking who was absent as well before being laid off last week, were the only administrators the drivers felt cared for their interests as well as that of the university's.
Thomas Moran, vice president of business affairs, said
that the layoffs of Archambault, Heidicker and another parking employee, Diana Cretien, were part of budgetary restructuring. He said suggestions that the layoffs were in any way related to the tram drivers or the Teamsters were "absolutely false; absolutely nonsense."
Drivers praised Archambault and Heidicker, and said their dismissals add to the drivers' insecurities.
(See Layoffs, page 6)
State of Union address divides campus opinion
By Allyson Daniel
Staff Writer
President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday drew mixed reviews from University faculty and students.
The 54-minute speech proposed several immediate tax and military cuts to remedy the. current economic problems.
Urging Congress to approve his plan by March 20, the President said, "We are going to lift this nation out of hard times inch by inch and day by day, and those who would stop us had better step aside. Because I look at hard times and I make this vow: This will not stand."
Herbert Alexander, a political science professor, didn't think the speech was going to "jump start" the economy because the proposals were too short-term.
"He did not convey the sense of urgency about the economy that I thought was necessary," Alexander said. "He never really said that we're in bad straits and that we need to work together as Americans and not as Republicans and Democrats."
Tiara Hallman, a senior majoring in business entrepreneurship, said she was impressed with the President's address.
(See Address, page 2)
Report evaluates LA economy
Downtown revival lacks effectiveness
By Lore Unt
Staff Writer
As national concerns about the recession dominate the 1992 presidential campaign, university re-seachers have completed a controversial study examining the role of local government in stimulating the Los Angeles economy.
The report, released Tuesday by researchers from the School of Urban and Regional Planning, claims that local government intervention — particularly in promoting downtown development
— has had little effect in promoting economic growth in the region.
The downtown revival is touted by Mayor Tom Bradley and local agencies and businesses as a key to revitalizing Los Angeles.
However, according to the report, the revival is "not the key to the region's success ... the most dramatic economic growth has
Edward Siegel/ Dally Trojan
Development of the downtown area has not achieved expected results.
occurred in the region's peripheral counties."
The report said growth in regional employment has increased at a greater relative rate in the Riverside-San Bernadino areas and in Orange County.
In light of these criticisms, the report evaluates the state of the Los Angeles economy. It also em-
phasizes that strategies to encourage growth should involve minimal government regulations.
Though the economy of the central city remains strong, it is more vulnerable than at any other time in the recent past, according to the report.
(See Study, page 5)